Kiev prevents the restoration of passenger rail transport between controlled territory and the self-proclaimed Luhansk people's Republic, said on Wednesday the head of the Ministry of infrastructure and transport LNR Alexander Chumachenko.

"Ukraine will not let us. We are ready to run some trains. We proposed to run trains to Kiev, We had proposed to run trains to Odessa, We have passenger trains for this, " said Chumachenko at hardware meeting of the Council of Ministers LNR.

according to his statement, for those proposals replies from Kiev did not come.

Because of such policy of the Ukrainian authorities in this matter, the LC can not re-start the train letter from Lugansk to Moscow, because the railway in this direction is not completely passes through the territory controlled by Ukrainian security forces.

"we have the opportunity to run the squad for Moscow, but it also gives them (Kiev - ed.), to put it mildly, a poor response," said Chumachenko.

at rallies in early April 2014, the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine, do not recognise the legitimacy of the February coup, announced the development of " people's republics ". After held in may referendum the Republic declared its sovereignty, put together their own authorities. The 2nd of November in DND and LNR elections of heads of republics and deputies of parliaments. Kiev DND and LNR not recognize. The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the republics. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 8 thousand people.